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A few examples of process documentation is conducted through a wide variety of blogging, including videos and music, documenting a journey for a long or short length of time. The example I chose, is one that I have been familiar with and have fully supported for a while now, it’s a non-profit organization website called The Uncultured Project (http://uncultured.com), a project created by a Notre Dam grad student who withdrew from grad school after an inspirational ceremony with speeches held by different scholars–focusing on global poverty. Among these scholars, economist Jeffrey Sachs, author of The End of Poverty was responsible for his unexpected, uncultured journey. This young man used his xbox 360 and halo savings and just WENT, to help victims in a third world country whom are fighting everyday to survive the quick sand of poverty. In the uncultured website he shares and documents his daily activities with photos of the project’s progression, struggles, difficulties, thoughts and ideas about other organizations. In his recent process documentation he discusses the struggles with his own financial expenses (since he doesn’t use donations) while intertwining them with other charity’s and competition.

3. Remember, you are citing your sources to document your research process. Anyone interested in reading your original sources must be able to find them, so be sure to include enough information so someone can find your original sources from your citations.

Well this will be my first research paper so im trying to find the simplest way on writing it. Im try to read all over my sources and come up with my own answer to my research question. Im going to put some of my sources in my paper to help support my opinions for the question. I have never done a research paper so im kind of nervous on how to begin and what information should be put into the paper and what should be left out. Im going to search the internet and look at other research papers to get an idea on how to begin. One question i have is it a good way to start the paper with my question as the first sentence?
J. Lantigua

Well this weekend I started searching with google scholar. Scholar is very useful it gave me many PDF articles to look at for my research question. Google books was also helpful, it showed many books for files haring which is part of my research question. Besides google, I liked using yahoo because of yahoo answers. A lot of people ask similar questions like my research question and when others answer their question they add links supporting their answers which is very helpful. But I think the library database was the most useful since they’re so many articles and books relating to my topic. Some problems I came across was finding websites relevant to my question. If I wasn’t specific with my searches I wouldn’t have found some useful information.
J.Lantigua

We also began to discuss the research process. Here’s a link to the research tutorials (flash-based) from Trinity Western University in Canada referred to by Badke in our textbook (the URL in the book is incorrect, this is the correct website). These might be a useful accompaniment to the textbook in the coming weeks: http://www.twu.ca/library/flashtutorials.htm

With information being such an abundant thing I feel that people should have as much access to knowledge as possible. I don’t think the idea if popularization is a bad thing. Most fields these days because of the internet are not mysterious. People have a lot of access to pretty much anything they want if they search hard enough. You still have to make sure that the information is credible but if your looking into something like say cancer studies, there is lots of very good information on the web. Everything is done with computers today. Almost everyone has access to one. Even little children can use the net to learn something. There is over 6.5 billion people on this planet. I would love to hear what most of them have to offer. Knowledge is most certainly infinite. The internet is just an amazing new tool for spreading knowledge. Most things should not be kept secret.

The true meaning to research has changed in the course of several years just like our vitamins. Present day research focus on specifics. Referring back to the vitamins, vitamins now come in variety of categories, calcium to strengthen your bones, iron for anemia, fish oil for healthy skin and joint strength, and of course we have the traditional women/men a day multivitamin. Each category of vitamins has been verified by a “specialist”. Just like that-research has begun to focus only into specific topics and subjects of a broader field.

In the reading The politics of research an excerpt from chapter 7 author Brian Martin, it comes to the conclusion that research has two major influences to producing knowledge, #1 funding and #2 disciplines. But the further question is what exactly is knowledge? “The word knowledge suggests certainty, authorativeness, and usefulness.” (p124). Knowledge is never steady, it changes, examples listed “mechanics of evolution or the development of countients”. Although knowledge is a key tool in today’s society, much is being ignored. Funding is an essential part of research and when a specific field is not being funded enough the new knowledge will never exist. For example: NASA has been faced with a huge budget cut back in February. If NASA continues to get little funding, countries like Russia will advance in making new astronomic discoveries.

I found Martins ideals of What can be done most intriguing, because I couldn’t have agreed more. I strongly agree on critical teaching. Critical teaching exercises our brains to think outside of the box and allows to become more creative individuals.